Ebadat A.R. wrote:
Hi,
I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . Buying a
software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There
is no license for presenting this software on the web. If you want to use
software in another program or another location you have to get special
license for new location.
We are working on Machine Translation system (Pars Translator
http://www.ParsTranslator.Net ) and our customers have no license to put
this software on the web as we mentioned in License Agreement before. As I
saw in many software (specially dictionaries) , there is no license to put
the dictionary on the web. Let me know if you have any Dictionary software
with license for putting data on the web.
Regards,
Pars Translator Group,
Ebadat A.R.
- Original Message -
From: "Behdad Esfahbod" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Persian Computing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2004/03/03 09:53 AM
Subject: Dictionaries on the web
Long boring thread again.
I just want to note that simply putting an online dictionary
service on the web does not need any permission from the
copyright holder of the dictionary data. So for example I can
buy an Aryanpour dictionary, extract the data, and write a web
program that you can query the meaning of a particular word, and
it would return to you the meaning.
The important point here is that, for this to be legal:
* You should have obtained your copy of the information
legally, eg. bought the CD.
* You should not redistribute the data, eg. no "download
dictionary here".
Last but not least, IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer).
behdad
PS. I know at least one online dictionary service that is
claiming to be legal in this way. They do not service to the
public still because they are not sure about the validity of the
above argument.
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As for the http://www.parstranslator.net/ site, I could not get it to
work!
Now, that we are talking about licensing and authorship etc, I am very
much curious to know where have you got your translations and
definitions for your products from. I sincerely doubt that you have
done it all by yourself, so my guess is that you have copied, if not
exactly, from other resources, Aryanpour, etc. If so, how have you
handled the copyright then?
Regards.
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